Does anyone have experience with Thundermaw Hellkite? I noticed some recent Jund lists where kite was in the sideboards.
I got so excited with the hasty Hazoret the Fervent that I started to think about this haste dragon. My meta sees a fair amount of flying souls and faeries, not to mention some awkward planeswalker decks. This would be a nice answer to all of those, not to mention it is 5/5 evasive creature anyways.
Took the list above to an disappointing result of 2-2.
R1: 2-1 against hardened scales walking ballista combo
R2: 2-1 against UR gifts storm
R3: 0-2 against BANT CoCo (2 Bobs on table drew only lands, not the DAMNations or any other removal for that matter!)
R4: 0-2 against random GW hatebear eldrazi planeswalker deck (Planeswalkers + Sicarda are baaad for jund!)
10 discard + surgical snatching empty the warrens made UR storm feel like a BYE. R1 I sided all discard out and R3&R4 I only kept thoughtseizes in.
Only drew Hazoret once during the whole evening, against the hardened scales deck and she won the game (sided her out against storm). I have to say that she can be a HUGE nonbo if you have an active Bob on the table. I kept drawing several lands in a row so it was hard to get her active. Opponent was pinging me with small creatures so I wanted to keep Hazoret in my hand so that I could drop her as a surprise haste swing for 5 dmg. When I finally got down to one card in hand, I managed to swing for 5. Next turn I drew Damnation and wiped away all but Hazoret and Finks and I swinged in for lethal.
When thinking this play afterwards, it prolly would have been correct play to just play her out even without her being able to attack/block and then just dump the excess cards next turn with her ability.
I can feel that Hazoret has potential. I prolly would have played some other 4 drop (Kalitas, Huntmaster) earlier in the above scenario. Kalitas generating tokens from Damnation would have also won the game for me I think. On R4 I was thinking that topdecked Hazoret + Ravine would have won me the race against lonely Sicarda, but of course I was only drawing lands..
Haste and indestructibility give a huge edge against the other 4 drops we usually run. Jund likes to be at the topdeck war anyways, so in general it shouldn't be a problem to get Hazoret hasted out.
Fatal Push took out some big creatures during R1, where bolt wouldn't have been able to do it. BANT CoCo player had Mirran Crusader, so here the bolt would have been good.
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I got so excited with the hasty Hazoret the Fervent that I started to think about this haste dragon. My meta sees a fair amount of flying souls and faeries, not to mention some awkward planeswalker decks. This would be a nice answer to all of those, not to mention it is 5/5 evasive creature anyways.
3 Bloodstained Mire
2 Wooded Foothills
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Blood Crypt
1 Stomping Ground
2 Swamp
2 Forest
2 Blooming Marsh
4 Raging Ravine
2 Blackcleave Cliffs
4 Tarmogoyf
4 Dark Confidant
2 Scavenging Ooze
2 Hazoret the Fervent
4 Inquisition of Kozilek
4 Thoughtseize
1 Maelstrom Pulse
3 Abrupt Decay
3 Terminate
1 Kolaghan's Command
4 Fatal Push
2 Kitchen Finks
2 Damnation
2 Collective Brutality
1 Maelstrom Pulse
1 Night of Souls' Betrayal
2 Surgical Extraction
1 Golgari Charm
3 Fulminator Mage
1 Liliana, the Last Hope
Took the list above to an disappointing result of 2-2.
R1: 2-1 against hardened scales walking ballista combo
R2: 2-1 against UR gifts storm
R3: 0-2 against BANT CoCo (2 Bobs on table drew only lands, not the DAMNations or any other removal for that matter!)
R4: 0-2 against random GW hatebear eldrazi planeswalker deck (Planeswalkers + Sicarda are baaad for jund!)
10 discard + surgical snatching empty the warrens made UR storm feel like a BYE. R1 I sided all discard out and R3&R4 I only kept thoughtseizes in.
Only drew Hazoret once during the whole evening, against the hardened scales deck and she won the game (sided her out against storm). I have to say that she can be a HUGE nonbo if you have an active Bob on the table. I kept drawing several lands in a row so it was hard to get her active. Opponent was pinging me with small creatures so I wanted to keep Hazoret in my hand so that I could drop her as a surprise haste swing for 5 dmg. When I finally got down to one card in hand, I managed to swing for 5. Next turn I drew Damnation and wiped away all but Hazoret and Finks and I swinged in for lethal.
When thinking this play afterwards, it prolly would have been correct play to just play her out even without her being able to attack/block and then just dump the excess cards next turn with her ability.
I can feel that Hazoret has potential. I prolly would have played some other 4 drop (Kalitas, Huntmaster) earlier in the above scenario. Kalitas generating tokens from Damnation would have also won the game for me I think. On R4 I was thinking that topdecked Hazoret + Ravine would have won me the race against lonely Sicarda, but of course I was only drawing lands..
Haste and indestructibility give a huge edge against the other 4 drops we usually run. Jund likes to be at the topdeck war anyways, so in general it shouldn't be a problem to get Hazoret hasted out.
Fatal Push took out some big creatures during R1, where bolt wouldn't have been able to do it. BANT CoCo player had Mirran Crusader, so here the bolt would have been good.